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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Christopher Hitchens

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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Christopher Hitchens "God is Not Great is about the worship of God being horrific, and it's probably the most cynical book that I've come across ever, even to an atheist like me, as extremely bitter, closed minded, snide, cynical. It's about the horribly destructive and counterproductive and nasty and spiteful things that religion has apparently been associated with, motivated, justified through human history, he attacks the whole major tripartite of religions pretty equally. That's certainly his focus. It's incredibly easy for anyone with positive morals and ethics to look at the history of humankind and the things going on today and find associations with religion, so there's never any question of him backing up what he has to say. I think the question is whether it ultimately is religion that's at fault and religion that ought to be attacked in turn to try to eradicate the human species' tendency to be evil. He means well, though. Through all of that, there's this sense that this is a really good person who would love to see love be the primary thing that humans spread amongst each other. It's hard to imagine rating God is Not Great lower than a three because it's a fine book -- for what it tries to do, it does well -- but it's hard to imagine rating it higher than a three because I don't like what the book does terribly much."